Press Statement
Planned Kogi Rigging, A Coup Against Democracy – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been made aware and hereby
informs Nigerians of clandestine meetings involving the Presidency, the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and some security forces wherein the agencies were ordered
to use official and unofficial means necessary to ensure victory for the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21 Kogi governorship election.
We have incontrovertible records of separate meetings, late last
week between the Presidency and the new INEC leadership as well as with some
top security officers, which were coordinated by the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation (SGF), Engr. Babachir Lawal, who boasted that he
has President Muhammadu Buhari’s orders to ensure that Kogi state is wrestled from
the PDP by all means.
We alert all to be aware of this planned ‘coup’, against democracy
again, by the now ‘new sherrif’, who though, being the biggest beneficiary of
free and fair election in the history of Nigeria, is now out to corrupt the
electoral system and destroy our democracy, all in the obsession to foist a
one-party state in the country.
*Metuh
Intelligence information available to us shows that at the meeting
with the new INEC leadership under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the commission was
given orders regarding the posting of compromised personnel to strategic areas
in the state to manipulate the card readers as well as the actual voting
process in favour of the APC, with assurance of adequate protection by
government security agencies, particularly the Directorate of State Services
(DSS).
